<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37819" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Calais Sands</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A thousand knights have reign'd their steeds<br>To watch this line of sand-hills run,<br>Along the never silent Strait,<br>To Calais glittering in the sun;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To look tow'rd Ardres' Golden Field<br>Across this wide aerial plain,<br>Which glows as if the middle Age<br>Were gorgeous upon earth again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, that to share this famous scene,<br>I saw, upon the open sand,<br>Thy lovely presence at my side,<br>Thy shawl, thy look, thy smile, thy hand!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How exquisite thy voice would come,<br>My darling, on this lonely air!<br>How sweetly would the fresh sea-breeze<br>Shake lose some band of soft brown hair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet now my glance but once hath roved<br>O'er Calais and its famous plain;<br>To England's cliffs my gaze is turn'd,<br>On the blue strait mine eyes I strain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou comest! Yes! The vessel's cloud<br>Hangs dark upon the rolling sea.<br>Oh, that yon sea-bird's wing were mine,<br>To win one instant's glimpse of thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I must not spring to grasp thy hand<br>To woo thy smile, to seek thine eye;<br>But I may stand far off, and gaze,<br>And watch thee pass unconscious by,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And apell thy looks, and guess thy thoughts,<br>Mixt with the idles on the pier. --<br>Ah, might I always rest unseen,<br>So I might have thee always near!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To-morrow hurry through the fields<br>Of Flanders to the storied Rhine!<br>To-night those soft-fringed eyes shall close<br>Beneath one roof, my Queen! with mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37819" data-title="Calais Sands de Matthew Arnold" data-description="A thousand knights have reign'd their steeds/To watch this line of sand-hills run,/Along the never silent Strait,/To Calais glittering in the sun;/To look tow'rd Ardres' Golden Field/Across this wide aerial plain,/Which glows as if the middle Age/..."></div> </div> </div>

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